Six emerging female artists showcase expansive and informed contemporary practices. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture, they present multidisciplinary and considered works exploring connection, materiality, and perspective.

The members of this group completed the Bachelor of Visual Arts at Adelaide Central School of Arts in 2025. Each is a second career artist giving them a rich foundation of experience that informs their approach. Emergence provides an opportunity for each artist to present work created within their own unique practice.

Afroditi Kelly works across painting and drawing, with a practice grounded in oils, acrylics, charcoal, and pastel. As a culturally and linguistically diverse artist over 60, she brings a rich lived experience to her work.

Amy Sibenaler’s practice is grounded in the everyday, exploring the transformative potential of the ordinary. Centred on the figure and relationships, her works shift with daily rhythms. Through a strong sensitivity to materiality, her expressive paint and colour move between generous and measured application, balancing immediacy and restraint.

Amy Sibenaler is a finalist in the City Rural Emerging Artist Award for work in this exhibition.

Andrea Sainsbury’s works include painting, drawing and three-dimensional multimedia. This year she is completing Honours in Visual Arts at Adelaide Central School of Arts. Through her research and art, she explores the visible and invisible traces of memory on and within the body and their impact on self.

Angie Harrison is a South Australian emerging artist creating work that explores her tangible and intangible relationship with place. Using gestural mark-making with oil paint she captures the emotive qualities of light and shadow, exploring the thin space between imagination and reality.

Stephanie Eland is currently undertaking honours at Adelaide Central School of Art. Her work focusses on responding to her immersion in place. She translates this using textiles and threads with her expansive textile practice to visually narrate her personal experiences and to promote environmental awareness.

Mary Patrinos is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Inspired by the more-than-human world, her practice is grounded in intuitive mark-making, exploring connection, belonging, and reimagining stories of existence.